Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller announced that today, September 10, 2021, the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline was finally completed, despite pressure from the United States and a number of European countries. A few days earlier, the last pipe of the second line of the pipeline was welded and the sections of the gas pipeline were joined between the coasts of Germany and Denmark. The total length of the pipeline along two lines is 2,460 kilometers, and the throughput capacity is 55 billion cubic meters. m of gas. It is noted that Gazprom was completing the construction of Nord Stream 2 at its own expense, since because of the sanctions imposed by the United States, its Swiss contractor stopped work on laying the pipe. Miller also noted that the first gas supplies to Europe via the new pipeline can be carried out already in the upcoming heating season by the end of this year.
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